Testing vintage US bridges for vulnerability -- and finding ways to protect them

Thursday, May 3, 2012 - 10:01 in Psychology & Sociology

It took only 13 seconds for the bridge to collapse into the Mississippi River in a thunderous rain of concrete and steel. When the Minneapolis I-35W bridge – an eight-lane, steel truss arch bridge – cracked and plummeted in 2007, one of the first thoughts was: SABOTAGE?

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